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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Perhaps, after such a long time, I should introduce myself again: Hi, I’m Petra. I’m interested in football and know quite a lot about the evolution of the rules of the game. I’m also developing my playwriting practice through online short courses at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Given all the lovely things happening this weekend, I really ought to dust off my Bsky account a bit, shouldn’t I?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Why are English TV series such as Midsomer Murders so popular in the UK – and beyond? What sets the Midsomer atmosphere apart from Poirot, Marple & Co.? My half-hour read explores this in an essay-like way. #SkyStorians #AcademicSky #🗃️

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Quintessentially English: The Atmosphere of Midsomer Murders - Quintessentially English

What do we mean when we describe Midsomer Murders being quintessentially English? What characterises the atmosphere of Midsomer Murders?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

midsomermurdershistory.org

Quintessentially English: The Atmosphere of Midsomer Murders - Quintessentially English

What do we mean when we describe Midsomer Murders being quintessentially English? What characterises the atmosphere of Midsomer Murders?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

After I've not been around for a while, there's a link I'd like to drop. Not only am I writing a book about Midsomer Murders / Inspector Barnaby, but I also saw the stage adaptation of Graham's first Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Me on Sunday: Okay, Petra, the book manuscript is now really finished. Anything else would just water down the essence. Collegue (in a completely different context) on Monday: I recently read that this and that. I didn't know that at all. ... Well, neither did I, but it's very relevant to the book.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

My first go at pulling together all the Midsomer Murders actors who are actually related! I’m sure there are still a few missing, but I’ll be adding more over the next few days. ➡️ midsomermurdershistory.org/real-life-re... #MidsomerMurders #InspectorBarnaby

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me. (Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.) Feel free to repost.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

☑️ Mandatory lunar eclipse photo

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Oh, it's already been two and a half months since I met Annette Badland. It was so amazing. And when she walked past me in the hotel corridor on her way to her room, I wished her “good night” and she replied “good night, darling”... 🥹❤️

Annette sits at a dining table, smiling warmly. She wears a dark grey patterned top. In front of her are bowls of soup, glasses and cutlery. Other people in brightly patterned shirts are partly visible on either side. The setting is in a conservatory restaurant with wooden blinds in the background.

Annette Badland and me smiling, sitting closely together in front of a wooden wall. Annette on the left wears a dark grey top with a subtle pattern. Me - on the right - have curly blonde hair and wear a black dress with lace detail at the neckline, a watch and a thin bracelet.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Why are unpleasant emails so unpleasant? And why do I see emails as unpleasant when I'm just doing self-care? 🫠

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In June 1826, 9 travellers with English-sounding names signed the guestbook in Klopp Castle at Bingen on the Rhine. However, I have only been able to identify 3 of them. The others either did not provide their forenames or gave no titles, making identification difficult. So how to identifying them?🧵

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Friday. I've started researching the names (not too deep for the sake of numbers). And I'm already racking my brain. What do I do with all the ones I can't identify? I'll make a new thread for that. Maybe one of my followers who are researching Britain's Romantic Period will have an idea?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My first appointment tonight 🥄

A young man in formal evening wear holds a candelabrum with four lit candles, standing in front of a door marked ‘10’. Behind him, a group of similarly dressed young men gather, partially obscured in the dim lighting, creating a mysterious and solemn atmosphere.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My spring tradition: When it's 20 degrees outside for the first time (and I'm at home), I drink a glass of rum in the garden. This year: Don Papa Baroko. Cheers!

A close-up of a hand holding a tulip-shaped glass of amber-colored rum in a sunny spring garden. The background is softly blurred but shows a vibrant flowerbed, green grass, trees, and a small garden shed under a clear blue sky.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Envious of all the people from Teesside because they have the best English accent without having to learn it.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I thought it'd be interesting to see all Brits who signed the guest book at Klopp Castle in Bingen on the Rhine between 1826 and 1914, to see which honours and celebrities were there. Well… got. more than 2000 names, and I've already deleted the duplicates and entries with illegible surnames. 😵‍💫 🗃️

The picture shows a picturesque Rhine landscape with a ruined castle on a steep rock on the left, a calmly flowing river in the centre and a town with churches and fortifications in the background. The colouring and style suggest a watercolour painting from the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What I wanted to do: read a bit and do some freelance work. What I did: added a pillar page with texts & links to my website, designed the homepage with a new theme, lost my nerve several times because I couldn't find small errors in the Wordpress customiser, then finally found them and fixed them.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's official, I have hay fever. Birch and house dust are my nemeses. (But the latter is not quite as bad.) Maybe my diagnosis of "chronic rhinitis" seven years ago was really hay fever?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Just read the programme for Midsummer in Midsomer 🙌. It's going to be so great. Look forward to lots of photos of film locations and plenty of food and drink.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I just realised that the actress who played Frances Le Bon in Midsomer Murders' Ring Out Your Dead is known for a quite famous role in a Monty Python movie.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

"And so it is hardly surprising that the 1886 Laws of the Game are almost identical to the 1885 FA Rules. The big exception: the throw-in (in the form still used today) is Scottish! However, the Scottish offside rule was not included in the LoG."

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The player escort kids at #InterPSV 🫶🤟

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Oh wow, my UK ETA application has just been approved in less than a minute (Sunday evening!). The confirmation email I received a few seconds earlier said it would take an average of three working days. Well, I take that as a very good sign for #MiM25.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

📖 Forrest, Mary: Land allotment scheme in Cork City 1917–1923, in: Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society 124 (2019), pp. 29–46. researchrepository.ucd.ie/server/api/c... #20s30s 🗃️

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I know that referee announcements are currently being tested in football (m) in Germany (1st and 2nd Bundesliga, German Cup) and England (Carabao Cup). Are there any other tests in this second half of the season? I've already tried to search online, but the results are very location-biased.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Now it's time to get through all the texts I've saved, as well as the podcasts I haven't listened to yet. 💪

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

☑️ Milestone. You can't believe how relieved I am. Over the last few weeks, I've thought several times that I'll reach the milestone when I've done X after all. But then I realised that there were other related tasks that needed to be completed. Now all the tasks are done and there are no more left.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

5 March 1888 | A German Jew, Eugen Salomon, was born in Wörrstadt. His family moved to Mainz, where he became one of the founders and chairman of today’s football club FSV Mainz 05 at the age of only 17.

Black and white portrait of a man wearing a suit and tie.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The sun's out, the birds are singing, and it's day 3 of our podcast trailer existing in the world. Listen now below, or search Absolute Units wherever you get your podcast. Gosh you have no idea how long we've been waiting to say that. linktr.ee/the.merl

Absolute Units, a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life. Three absolute unit sheep hover over a cartoon backdrop of the English countryside.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#SportsHistory #FootballHistory This is the 1965/66 West German Regional League Cup, but who is the creator of this curious trophy? Does anyone know or know where to look it up?

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Well, at least it's a high-scoring game. #ManUnited

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My cat has a bruised hip. She's been on painkillers since Thursday and has been jumping up and down on the sofa without a problem. Until tonight when she got into a fight with another cat. Now she is limping again and can only pull herself up on the sofa (but is otherwise behaving quite normally).

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Famous quotes: „Who ARE you?“ „I‘m an archaeologist from the future. I dug you up.“

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I've been on the fence about buying a used scientific book It was published over 50 years ago, but it's still quite expensive even as a second-hand book. Now I've now found one that's not too expensive. It's not in the right price range, but ... I finally bought it.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Some call it "purgatory" („Fegefeuer“), because shortly before death you are made aware of what you have done - and have not.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sometimes I ask myself why I position myself politically in public. 😩 Oh, right..... Football is political. And: #NieWieder!

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Only a few minutes played and already a big Palestinian flag is flying in the Celtic FC stadium. 🙄 🤦‍♀️ I’m really looking forward to seeing how the Schickeria will react at the second leg. (And the fact that Celtic has several anti-Semitic fans has been obvious and audible for years). #CELBAY

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 12/02/2025

Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

View down a well lit railway platform with a sleeper train alongside

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#SportsHistory - Franziska Kaiser studied history and sports science, and her master's thesis was on how sports clubs and club cultures developed and behaved in 1920s' and 1930s' Germany. 🗃️ (Find the translation of her quote in my attached post, and the link to the podcast in the shared thread.)

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hier ist der Link, aber am besten abonniert ihr in eurem Podcatcher den Podcast, denn er ist gut und wichtig.

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Petra @cliomz.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Letzte Woche hat Franziska Kaiser einen Vortrag über ihre Masterarbeit geschrieben (als ich danach auf der von @wortpiratin.de moderierten Podiumsdiskussion war), nun könnt auch ihr sie direkt im „Flutlicht An!“-Podcast hören.

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